Nebraska legislators prepare to fight for new cancer insurance bill

Nebraska lawmakers are set to wrestle over a new cancer insurance bill that is coming to the Legislature. The bill concerns the use of chemotherapy pills and other such medications and whether or not insurance companies will have to provide coverage for these treatments. Typically, insurers provide coverage for cancer treatments given intravenously, but do not cover oral medications. In some cases, oral treatments are effective in stopping cancer, but insurers have claimed that coverage for this type of medication would be too expensive for both consumers and insurance companies.…

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